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mHealth Monitoring System for Hospitalised Older Adults – Current Issues and Challenges

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Mobile Health

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The mobile healthcare (mHealth) applications are becoming increasingly important in monitoring and delivery of healthcare interventions. They are often considered as pocket computers, due to their advanced computing features and diverse capabilities. Their sophisticated sensors and advanced software applications make mHealth based applications more feasible and innovative. Advanced engineering, communication and information technologies combined with medical and clinical knowledge enable the possibility of remote, wireless, continuous monitoring of physiological parameters. These technologies facilitate the implementation of mHealth based patient monitoring and diagnostic systems virtually anywhere: home, hospital and outdoors (on the move). The proposed mHealth vital sign monitoring system in this chapter is aimed to help clinicians by illustrating the trace of critical physiological parameters, generating early warning/alerts and indicating any significant changes to the data. The system was validated with different set of collected data from 20 hospitalised older adults and achieved an accuracy of 95.83%, sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 93.15%, and predictability of 90.38% in compare with a clinician assessment for tachycardia, hypertension, hypotension, hypoxemia and hypothermia. Another important aspect of this chapter is to investigate challenges and critical issues related to the use of such applications in healthcare including reliability, efficiency, mobile phone platform variability, cost effectiveness, energy usage, user interface, quality of medical data, and security and privacy.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Private Bag 92006, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand

    Mirza Mansoor Baig & Hamid Gholamhosseini

  2. Freemasons’ Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Auckland North Shore Hospital, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand

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Baig, M.M., Gholamhosseini, H., Connolly, M.J. (2015). mHealth Monitoring System for Hospitalised Older Adults – Current Issues and Challenges. In: Adibi, S. (eds) Mobile Health. Springer Series in Bio-/Neuroinformatics, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12817-7_14

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